Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nash bodies) settled with its workers. In the Detroit area, a strike threatened by the Mechanics Educational Society (tool & die makers) was called. More than 3,000 tool & die men walked out of 100 small job shops which would not grant their demands for a 20% wage increase, 7-hr. day, 35-hr. week. Last autumn the tool & die makers crippled the entire automotive industry with their strike. But the efficacy of their new walk-out was minimized by the fact that their season's peak is past. As Detroit motor plants roared toward the close...
...sickness. Albert Wellington Bridge's friends think he might have become a great industrialist. Orphaned son of a Vermont farmer, he decided early that there was no proper room for his talents in farming or in the sawmill where, when he finished high school, he worked 16 hr. a day for $8 a month. Selling the farm he had inherited from his father, he took a medical course at University of Vermont, two years later went West. Conventional practice in Tacoma seemed no more promising than farm or mill, but in 1909 Dr. Bridge at last found what...
...always wanted to live abroad, died last November. Like the Montanans, the Irish liked him. The train that took him from Cobh to Dublin across the astonishingly green-splotched fields was hung with twined Irish and U. S. flags. It was out to set a record and did: 2 hr...
...Lieut. Otto Wienecke, a seasoned Army pilot who had flown less than 24 hr. in the last 18 months, was ramming a planeload of mail from, Newark, N. J. through a snowstorm, toward Cleveland. About 20 mi. short of his goal, he groped for a landing. His plane crashed on John Hess's farm near Burton, Ohio. Farmer Hess ran to the wreck, shook the pilot's shoulder. Lieut. Wienecke did not budge. His neck was broken...
...Pentecostal Church of God in Baltimore one night last week, Rev. John William Pitcher and five members set out to break the cover-to-cover Bible reading record (69 hr., 17 min.) of Rev. Finis J. Dake & team of Zion City, Ill. (TIME, Feb. 26). It took Preacher Pitcher's team 50 hr. and 56 min. to go from Genesis to Revelation. Then all arose and sang: "Praise God from Whom all blessings flow...